'Gender and Networking - study 1 - sept2019' (AsPredicted #27908)
Author(s) This pre-registration is currently anonymous to enable blind peer-review. It has one author.
Pre-registered on 09/16/2019 08:27 AM (PT)
1) Have any data been collected for this study already? No, no data have been collected for this study yet.
2) What's the main question being asked or hypothesis being tested in this study? Hypothesis 1a: Women (compared to men) will be less likely to undertake network-deepening actions with a supervisor from another gender.
Hypothesis 1b: This difference will be attenuated when the target of the network-deepening actions is a colleague (vs. a supervisor).
Hypothesis 2: Moderated mediation effect: The extent to which women are less likely to engage in network-deepening actions with a male supervisor will be driven by an increase in image risk.
3) Describe the key dependent variable(s) specifying how they will be measured. DV: Willingness to maintain relationships / engage in network-deepening actions: The average of 7 scale items measured on a 7-point scale from (1) I would hardly see myself undertaking this action, (7) I would easily see myself undertaking this action.
Mediator: Image risk: The average of 9 scale items measured on a 7-point scale from (1) Strongly disagree to (7) Strongly agree.
4) How many and which conditions will participants be assigned to? Participants will be randomly assigned to one of a four-cell between-subject design in which I manipulate two factors: Gender of the target (male vs. female) and Hierarchical level of the target (same vs. upper). Participants will read a vignette corresponding to the condition they have been assigned and will then answer the dependent measures.
5) Specify exactly which analyses you will conduct to examine the main question/hypothesis. Hypothesis 1a and 1b: I will analyze the dependent variable with an OLS regression, including as predictors the gender of the participant, the gender of the target, the hierarchical level of the target, and all two and three-way interactions between those factors.
Hypothesis 2: I will then run a moderated mediation analysis using PROCESS Macro (Model 12, second edition). I expect women’s likelihood to engage in network-deepening actions with a male supervisor to be mediated by the image risk attached to this behavior.
6) Describe exactly how outliers will be defined and handled, and your precise rule(s) for excluding observations. Manipulation checks: Participants will answer two questions to check whether they detected the conditions to which they were assigned. Any participant failing one or more questions will be excluded prior to analysis.
Attention checks: Participants will answer two questions to check whether they attentively read the different items of the scales they must reply to. Any participant failing one or more questions will be excluded prior to analysis.
7) How many observations will be collected or what will determine sample size? No need to justify decision, but be precise about exactly how the number will be determined. I will collect 1000 responses from Prolific. Any small deviation from this goal will be due to the Prolific platform and outside of my control.
8) Anything else you would like to pre-register? (e.g., secondary analyses, variables collected for exploratory purposes, unusual analyses planned?) The study will include demographics questions (gender, age, country, education, work experience) to know more about my sample. Only gender will be used in my analysis.
Exploratory analysis will be run on three sub-items of the mediator (referring to “flirtatious”, “seductive”, and “promiscuous”). Those items specifically refer to an image risk that might be more relevant to women than men.